It's Spidey overload in Dan Slott, Giuseppe Camuncoli & Cam Smith's fun, over-the-top "Amazing Spider-Man" #12, a "Spider-Verse" chapter that treads water in spots but is freshened by some story twists and breaks from continu

"X-Men" #6 by Brian Wood and David López succeeds as both a chapter of "Battle of the Atom" and the ongoing series, but the large cast and no
references to past events make it a tough read for the more casual X-Men reader.

"Green Lantern" #23.1 places the focus on new villain Relic, and while Robert Venditti and Rags Morales do a good job of explaining why he's trying to stomp out all the Corps, the storytelling method is a little dull.

"Superior Spider-Man" #10 features the first adventures of Otto Octvaius truly liberated from Peter Parker as well as the return of one of Spider-Man's deadliest foes thanks to Dan Slott and Ryan Stegman.

Writer Justin Jordan and artists Jesús Merino and Pascal Alixe add depth and detail to the DC Universe in "Team 7" #5 with a modern-day conversation between Deathstroke and Lynch and a flashback sequence exposing the origins of cybernetic organ

"A+X" #1 tells two very short but mostly satisfying tales -- the first has Dan Slott and Ron Garney pairing up Captain America and Cable, while the second has Jeph Loeb and Dale Keown doubling up on doses of Wolverine and The Hulk.

"Minimum Carnage Alpha" #1 is a lot of crossover fun with Carnage doing what he does best and Venom and Scarlet Spider getting equal chance to shine at the hands of Cullen Bunn, Chris Yost and Lan Medina.